Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 1, 1993 TAG: 9303310370
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-18 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
IN BUSINESS
KAREN BARSFIELD-SOWERS, an account manager for Adia Temporary Barsfield-Sowers Services, has been elected Woman of the Year by the North Roanoke Chapter of the American Business Women's Association.Sowers, a graduate of James Madison University, joined the North Roanoke chapter in 1991 and currently is program chairman.
She is a member of Business and Professional Women and the Roanoke Valley Society for Human Resource Management.
\ MOORE'S LUMBER AND BUILDING SUPPLIES has announced the names of Roanoke associates honored for outstanding performance during 1992.
Buyers of the year were: Frank Atwood, Cathy Jansen and Brian Akers; Brent Holland, runner-up; and Missy Hartman, Donna Jennings and Debbie Lowe, buyer support.
President's "You Can Do and Did" Award winners were: Frank Atwood, commodities buyer; Liz LaPrad, business analyst; Pat McHugh, division sales manager; the Credit Management Group; and the Inventory Management Group.
President's "Loyal Dissenter" Award winners were: Dave Green, branch manager; and Carolyn Phillips, administrative real estate manager.
Mark Cole won the Performance Excellence award, and Sylvia Reynolds was named President's Customer Care Heroine of the Year.
\ DENISE BURRELL WEBB, daughter of Pauline Burrell Pullins of Roanoke and the late Robert C. Burrell, recently passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination. Webb lives in Richmond.
\ ALLSTATE INSURANCE CO. has announced the 1992 winners of its Sales Achievement Awards.
Pat Hall, office agent in Roanoke, has earned Chairman's Conference status. Roger Rakes, office agent in Salem, and Joyce McElwaine and Larry Fallen, office agents in Roanoke, earned the National Conference designation. Each of these agents also won the Honor Ring award.
Other Roanoke Valley Honor Ring agents were Steve Nash and Fred Price, office agents in Roanoke. Also, agency managers Bill Richards and Donna Mason of Roanoke earned the Key Manager distinction.
\ FRED AND MARY BURTNER, owners and operators of Rent-a-Wreck in Roanoke and Blacksburg, recently were honored as outstanding members of the Rent-a-Wreck system.
Since joining the system in October 1985, their fleet has grown to more than 50 cars, vans and trucks.\ \ DONALD L. HELMS JR., manager of the Roanoke branch of Avco Financial Services, has been named to the company's Circle of Excellence. Helms received the award by placing in the top 15 percent of branch managers in his operating area for 1992.